SUNY Womens Track Ends Season at Invitational

New York, N.Y.: The SUNY Cobleskill women’s indoor track & field team closed their 2017-18 regular season over the weekend competing at the Armory Last Chance College Invitational hosted by Armory Track & Field at The New Balance Armory Track Center. The Fighting Tigers brought home several significant finishes from the non-scoring qualifying event.

Junior distance runner Quinn Porter, Ballston Spa, N.Y., Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School, posted the team’s best individual finish at the event winning the 3000-meter run in a time of 11:21.12 while sophomore sprinter/hurdler Katherine Vashsen, Stamford, Conn., Westhill High School, placed third in the 60-meter hurdles in a time of 10.48 seconds.

In the mid-distances: sophomore Annelyse Matzinger, Cogan Station, Pa., Mountoursville Area High School, finished eighth in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:05.42 and in the 800-meter run the duo of sophomore Anastasia Monsen, Guilderland, N.Y., Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School, taking sixth overall in 2:28.79 followed by junior Kristina Langston, Cornwall, N.Y., Cornwall High School, taking seventh overall in 2:35.10.

In the field events, sophomore thrower Sabrina Headrington, Phillipsburg, N.J., Phillipsburg High School, established recorded her best finish of the year in the weight throw with a toss of 44’7” to place fourth overall versus the field.

Qualified Fighting Tiger athletes will next be in action at the 2017-18 NCAA Division III Atlantic Indoor Regional Meet hosted by Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y. on Friday March 2nd and Saturday March 3rd beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Friday and 10:00 a.m. on Saturday.